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A group of organizations filed a complaint on Friday that alleged Asian-Americans face discriminatory standards for admission to Harvard University, the Wall Street Journal reported. The complaint suggested Harvard has set quotas to keep the...

The question of whether the Constitution guarantees the right to marry to same-sex couples currently awaits a decision from the Supreme Court while legislation recently proposed in some states has sparked fierce outcries for being...

Blue Bell Creameries is laying off 1,450 workers across the country and closing a distribution center in South Carolina, one month after the company began recalling its ice cream products due to an outbreak of the bacteria listeria that killed...

Natalya Pasternak had been collecting birch sap, for juice, in a forest in Tynda, in southeastern Russia, with a friend when her dog began to bark, warning of some impending danger. Then, a 4-year-old female bear attacked as Pasternak’s...

A security researcher told the FBI he used a plane’s in-flight entertainment system to hack into its engine system on multiple occasions, once even briefly flying the plane sideways, according to an FBI affidavit filed in April. Fifteen to...

Hosting on Saturday Night Live, comedian Louis C.K. took his middle-aged uncomfortable-in-his-own-skin white male persona to a new place as he portrayed a Sprint employee who has to speak like a black woman for years after being caught by his...

Marie was mixing basil for pesto on the kitchen counter of a brownstone in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn when the doorbell rang. Her friend Janet Kalish was early for lunch: the butternut squash was still cooking. “I found kilos of...

Environmental activists in Seattle paddled out to sea to protest a Shell oil rig moored off the coast of the US city that is headed for Arctic drilling, local media reported. Hundreds of kayaks, canoes, sailboats and a solar-powered barge called...

In barns filled with classical music and lighting that changes to match the hues outside, rows of chickens are fed a diet rich in probiotics, a regimen designed to remove the need for the drugs and chemicals that have tainted the global food...

The firearm used in the slayings of two Mississippi police officers last weekend was found on Friday, state law enforcement officials said. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety said in a statement that ballistics testing of the .40...

A 3-year old reportedly shot their 1-year old sibling in the face by accident in Venice, Florida last Friday, WTSP reports. The shooting occurred around 4:30 p.m. in a car outside the Sonshine Learning Center on Orange Road in Venice, according...

Martin Chulov in Beirut and Spencer Ackerman in New York US special forces entered Syria on Friday night and killed a mid-ranking leader of the Islamic State, in only the second raid of its kind since operations against the terror group began...

A pastor in southern Indiana is charged with child sexual abuse in Kentucky for molesting a child several times over a 3-year period in his car, home and inside the church where he preached, AP reports. A grand jury in Lewis County, Kentucky,...

A new map published by CDC shows the most distinctive causes of death for each of the 50 U.S. states, reports Benchmark Reporter. While heart disease and cancer are two leading causes of death across the U.S., certain causes of death are more...

To those who grew up in the 1990s, Bill Nye the Science Guy was a television staple and its star a fount of scientific discovery. Today, Nye continues working in a similar vein, albeit offscreen, as CEO of the Planetary Society, a nonprofit that...